Spring is in the air! So is opium!
We're deep in the throes of another lovely Chicago spring-- it was in the 70s on Monday and snow is forecast for tomorrow.
Good times!
Considering the freak weather of my adopted home, I've been looking in the comics to get a little dose of spring fever... And we all know that nothing really beats kicking back with a good Family Circus (much better than, say a good Marmaduke), especially when looking for some keen observational humour!
Bitchy Dolly notes that it's Springtime! It's God's way of saying "Let's Party!"
For fear of offending sensitive readers, I won't divulge what my way of saying "Let's Party!" is, but suffice to say that it isn't appropriate for the Sunday unfunny pages, but hey, to each his own.
Let's examine Bil Keane's idea of "God's Party", shall we? Let's start with the lower left hand corner...
Billy playing baseball? Ok. That's nice.
PJ enjoying cotton candy? No complaints there.
Bil cooking up some franks and burgers on the grill? Thumbs up!
Dolly terrorizing butterflies? Billy drinking juice out of a sippy cup? Good times!
Ice cream, swings, terrorizing bunnies? Check, check, check!
But then we get to this:
Which just confuses me.
1. Why is Bil wearing sweats while Thel is in a party dress (albeit with Birkenstocks)?
2. Thel is really into it, isn't she? I guess when God says, "Let's Party" she just cuts loose! From recent episodes of "The O.C." I've learned about the dangers of ecstasy and what "candy-flipping" is. And Thel's squinty eyes and reckless abandon (while dancing with her sweatpantsed hubby!) suggests that she's may be on something...
3. Who dances in the park? I mean, except people on ecstasy.
Continuing on...
"...Let's all sing like the birdies sing..."
Ok people! WTF?
Who are these people? Where is Thel? What is this song? "LET'S ALL SING LIKE THE BIRDIES SING" Like the BIRDIES sing? Birdies? BIRDIES!!!
The two other brown-haired people look like dirty hippies (or at least former dirty hippies) and the other lady looks like Mamie Eisenhower in a sweatshirt.
I could see the FAMILY singing something like "You are my sunshine" or "Oh Susanna", but we have the patriarch singing about BIRDIES with a bunch of random people while his children are chasing butterflies and white rabbits when they're not drinking the kool-aid.
Think about it people!
Good times!
Considering the freak weather of my adopted home, I've been looking in the comics to get a little dose of spring fever... And we all know that nothing really beats kicking back with a good Family Circus (much better than, say a good Marmaduke), especially when looking for some keen observational humour!
Bitchy Dolly notes that it's Springtime! It's God's way of saying "Let's Party!"
For fear of offending sensitive readers, I won't divulge what my way of saying "Let's Party!" is, but suffice to say that it isn't appropriate for the Sunday unfunny pages, but hey, to each his own.
Let's examine Bil Keane's idea of "God's Party", shall we? Let's start with the lower left hand corner...
Billy playing baseball? Ok. That's nice.
PJ enjoying cotton candy? No complaints there.
Bil cooking up some franks and burgers on the grill? Thumbs up!
Dolly terrorizing butterflies? Billy drinking juice out of a sippy cup? Good times!
Ice cream, swings, terrorizing bunnies? Check, check, check!
But then we get to this:
Which just confuses me.
1. Why is Bil wearing sweats while Thel is in a party dress (albeit with Birkenstocks)?
2. Thel is really into it, isn't she? I guess when God says, "Let's Party" she just cuts loose! From recent episodes of "The O.C." I've learned about the dangers of ecstasy and what "candy-flipping" is. And Thel's squinty eyes and reckless abandon (while dancing with her sweatpantsed hubby!) suggests that she's may be on something...
3. Who dances in the park? I mean, except people on ecstasy.
Continuing on...
"...Let's all sing like the birdies sing..."
Ok people! WTF?
Who are these people? Where is Thel? What is this song? "LET'S ALL SING LIKE THE BIRDIES SING" Like the BIRDIES sing? Birdies? BIRDIES!!!
The two other brown-haired people look like dirty hippies (or at least former dirty hippies) and the other lady looks like Mamie Eisenhower in a sweatshirt.
I could see the FAMILY singing something like "You are my sunshine" or "Oh Susanna", but we have the patriarch singing about BIRDIES with a bunch of random people while his children are chasing butterflies and white rabbits when they're not drinking the kool-aid.
Think about it people!
posted by Emily at 4:08 PM
8 Comments:
I'm sitting here with 2 people who have actually heard that song!! And the lyrics include "Tweet, tweet, tweet."
No kidding. They just sang it for me.
I had not heard of it ever before. The things the comics teach us. Also, the things your mom and grandmom teach you (they're the ones who know the song)
BK is awful! When you start signing "tweet tweet tweet," what bird are you imitating? A pigmy nuthatch? A northern bobwhite?
I think they should also include Billy torturing a cat, and Dolly speaking to a deranged clown.
John
I can't tell, but it looks like P.J.'s cotton candy has HAIR IN IT.
HORF! That's awful! Why would you eat hairy cotton candy???
I think that the FC needs to be carbon-dated. It's stuff like this that peeks through the blatant attempts at modernizing via misuse of Google.
While I'm not going to suggest that the family singalong should be something off the last Interpol record, but come on!
I'll see what more I can find out about the tweet tweet birdie song while I'm here. I got the sense that it was a 60s thing. Speaking of, even if the FC were taking place in the 60s, it still doesn't make sense. NO WAY would the F.C. family be hanging out with hippies. NO WAY.
Carbon dating F.C. sounds like a good project. I'd been searching for something new . . .
Then why is Thel wearing BIRKENSTOCKS?
Birkenstocks, Al!
I do not know. I mean, all signs point to hippie-dom, except they are too All-American family values to be hippies, aren't they? Maybe they are the Steven and Elyse Keaton of the funny pages.
On the bird song: I asked my mom, "Is it a lullaby?" No. "Is it a kid's song?" I don't think so. "Well, what is it?" I don't know, it was from BEFORE MY TIME.
So, I asked my grandmother. She said the only lyrics she could remember were "Let's all sing like the birdies sing. Tweet, tweet, tweet." When I pressed her for further details, she was stuck. She said, "Well, it wasn't exactly on the Hit Parade."
.. fast forward to 2008 ...
dudes this song is from 1932!!!!!
Post a Comment
<< Home